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Okay. I was a Molecular Biologist. Here are the general places you get money:1: academic research. You survive on grants and teaching at a colleg. You have to do research2) Sales for a biotech/drug/ or Scientific company (pays well)3) Private sector. Pharma pays the best, but Biotechs and scientific companies4) Government (NSF/CDC/NIH) pay is lousey but ok5) Get an ancillary degree (law, medicine) private sec6) Ad agencies (Scientific writing, account management, other things) pays well8) defense contractors/cia - you might not like what you are doing but they love biologists

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I understand that the government and companies give you grants for research and all that, but does what you're researching have to be something new that no one else has done? And what about money just for yourself like for food and clothes and stuff?

Each of the numbered points is a Job. You get paid. When you get a grant, it isn't usually to pay you. It is to pay for researchers and staff and supplies. The University pays you. Sometimes the grant can offset your pay too.When you work for a drug company, for example, you get a salary and you work on what they want you to, or you can do marketing, regulatory, etc...When choosing a scientific discipline, it is important to think about whether there will be grant money to support it or if there is a job out there in that field. Ecology/Evolution and Natural Sciences (lions, etc) are NOT well funded.

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They get grants for their research and many are professors/lecturers alongside their research, so they get an annual salary from the academic institution that they work at. Or if they work in industry, they'll just get a salary from the organisation they work for. It varies.

If they work at a university, they get grants for research and draw a salary for teaching classes. There are some strict research institutions, but unless you work for a zoo, you'll be relying on grants almost exclusively for your income. I think.

I guess it is all relative. Academic researchers make around $45K/ year. In Pharmaceutical companies they earn around $80-110K at a managers level. At the director level in a pharma company the pay goes up rapidly to 150K. In government they earn less than academia. If they move into sales, or marketing it will be more. When I moved onto the business side, my top was around $250K/year. But that was as as a marketing VP.

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I find pay for scientists to be incredibly interesting. Some of these people develop new vaccines and medical science saves lives everyday but the weird thing is they don't make that much. The company or group that funds their research makes the money. I think it's kind of jacked up that brilliant minds who could probably outsmart the businessmen they work for make less. I mean they do very well depending on the field it's just interesting to me.

The celebrity scientists who write books and go on TV programs make bank though.

Once you establish your research and what you aim to accomplish, people usually give out grants towards your research in hopes to better science. You'll have a salary from whatever organization you end up working for anyway.

Getting scientific articles published, grants from the government and corporations. Hired by companies for research purposes.

Though getting their research articles published brings the most recognition, which often results in the most corrupted 'research' done for the sake of appeasing the public and preventing themselves from looking like 'quacks.'

They get grants from the government mostly, which is why all mainstream science has to follow a certain narrative. If you make a groundbreaking discovery that goes against that narrative, you will be ostracized and blacklisted and never find work again.